Daily Republican., 1887-02-08
COUNTY OoURr.


Coart recon vened ut O'Clock yester |
day afternoou, with Chief Justice Come.
|eys and Associate Judges Wootten and |
Houston on the bepoh.
The names Of the grand jurors wereI
called and they retired 10 their room.
Immediately Afterwards William H. |
Decker cas arraiened and glesd guilty |
70 an indictment charging him with the |
larceny Of horse valued st S2e0 from
Richard W. Milford. on the 10Th Of
bepten ber, 1885. He was also charged
on another indictment with the larceny
Iof York wagon valued at $40 and .
set OF harness valued at $40, taken at|
the Same time from Mr.. Aulford.
William Dettner plead not guilty to|
an Indictment charging him with bur.
webster, November 23d, 1885, and steal
Ing aquAntity Of silver ware and other
srticles.
William II. Decker, who plead gnilty
N the larceny of horse from Richard
w. Mulford, was sentenced to pay the
costs OF prosecution, . ane OF $500 with
SiO0 restitution money. 70 be i'm prisoned
two years, on next Saturday to stand
(ons hour In the .pillory, and bs vkip.
psd with 20 laskes.
A Jury was then drawn, and the case
Iof William Ds,tnsr indicted for burg
larry and larceny Was taken up for trial, +,
with Willard II. Porter, Esq, fer the
StAte.
A. 8. Webster was swo.p, and hsti.
fed that he resides In this city and that
on the night Of November 80, 1886, his
house was broker into and robbed of .
lquantisy Of silverware and 81 In money.
He did not discover that his house had
been robbed until about 8 O'Clock the
next morning. He notified the Mayor
and Chief OF Police, and afterwards cav
the spoonb In the window os d shop on
Tatnall street. He identified them from
the fact that they had his initial upon
taem. Tns witntss notified Sergeant
McVey aud went 10 the place where the
spoons were, when the proprietor told
him that hs bad bought them tha
morning from q mau, and from tho de
, isoription which be gave the prisone
|. was arrested.
Thomas II. Wilson, colored, testisst
that he keeps q store on Tatnall street
, aud ON the morning after the robber,
/, occurred he bought tho silver spoon
and some othor articles from IL
as tho man who had sold them to him
hAb cy tbttihSu th1h ~ -
trssted the prieoner, from information
(which he received from Mr.. Webster
lasd the man who had bought th
lar dcles. The prisoner admitted TO tn
J witreas that he hal sold the things :
iwilson.
The State closed with this xitnes,
and Dettner. who was not represeR te
, lby council. IN ado . rambling address
81 l. tAh hA aatH "a
!, larticles had been given 10 him b
another man, and that he did nc
y kpow where he got them. The jur
q were briefly charged By the Chief Jul
tice ard retired At 8 30 O'Clock. The
- lnotiheI tho bailiff at 9 O'Clock 10,
evening that they had agreed and wor
was sent TO the judges at the Clayt TO
House. Judge Houston came up
the Court House, and the jury came
D with q verdict OF not guilty, when u
prisoner was discharged.
George Anderson, colored, was o
g. raisned and plead guilty to an !nd6
ment charging him with the larceny
an overcoAt, valued at IS, from Jol
III. Wiley Of Per cA5er Hundred, {
lJanuary 23, 1887. He was sentenced
pay the costs of prosecution, 81 restit
2, ltion money, on Saturday mex. be Will
>, ped with five lashes, and be impriscn
three months.
Joseph Griffith, colored, plead gull
10 an indictment charging him wi
the larceny OF seven chickens, yalui
at 80 cents each. from Benjamin
= Gem ~ Appoquinimink Hundred. T
. court snteBoed him TO pay the costs
\ prosecution, 81 restitution money,
e imprisoaed three months, and on Satl
y day next be whipped with Ave lsshes.
LsT o. Bird, Esq addressed /
Court, and said that Austin Harm
iton, Esq the commissioner appoint
by tie Court to take evidence in /
Biock.om divorces case had made his
turn, an 4 that 10 was adverse 10 graz
ing the application. He said that
represented the respondent, and that
.e, no had not taken her case she wou
Il have bssn without counsel. At the IL
III term the Court had ordered the app
nt ant, DR.. Biocksom, to pay him $500
counsel ices, and ho now asked that
r. order be granted on DIR. Blocksom,
,. him to pay, within ctrtaiu time to
io named by the Court, the sum OF S2l
w to pay the com missioner, witness II
and other expenses.
j. II. Hoffecker, Esq, said he had
n W bhNhS OosSob bNs hc Viva
~ before an order was granted to Ale G
ception to the return of the CON IN
sionsr, aud asked the Uourt 20 aos o
- WHOM argument would be hoard. I
lCh!ef Justice raid tho Court wot
Y give him until Saturday 10 flo bis I
!csptions, and that the matter OF co
would be determined by tho disposiIi
of the case
Walter Grooma. oolored, aud John
!Connell, . wbito boy, were arrsign
yF. on An Indictment charging them VI
breakiDg into the house OF Pedro NJ
ltiDelli on the night of November IL
oci1S36, and stealing O coat, vost pa
VI and q sum of money. Grooms pile
guilty, and Connell plead not gull
~ Austin Harrington, Esq, stated TO
lCourt that Oonneil. who is but 10 yei
OF age, belongs ia Washington, ID.
- and is the son Of highly respectable p
ple. Some time before this ofiense
We committed he ran away from home, q
ON the night Of the robbery applied
as police station for lodg lngs. when GEO
told him 10 oome with him, and
would show him q place to stay.
boy weat with him bus did not b.
anything TO do with the robbery.
Court kaid the CAGE would be conunu
and Mr.. Harrington ssid he would
pear for the boy.
1tS, walter Grocms was then eepten
,,,r, to psy the costs OF prosecution, SS2
'uA titntion money, to bs imprisoned th
In NOE tbs, and on Saturday, nsxt be wi
pod with ten lashes.
William Bawdon. .colored, plead gu
Il h to an Indictment charging him with
i' larceny OF 20 fence posts, valued o.
cents each, and $50 fence railf, val
Mt 10 cents each, In St. Georges II